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I have started going through the threads and editing poems which are not in the default colours as per stated in the rules. If you KNOW you have posted a poem in colours, please edit it yourself. Any threads created from 13 Dec 2010 with poems in colour will attract a warning.
Comment posts...

Theme: Sunrise and/or Sunset
Your poem can be written in any style. There is no minimum/maximum line count or word count.
How you interpret and use the theme is up to you.
Submissions must have a title (this will be used for the voting thread), but descriptions are optional.
First...

I did one for the fictions and now I'm doing one here for the benefit of everyone writing or reviewing poetry. Please note that I have taken this from here and have edited very little as I am no poetry expert and thought that it would be best to leave poetry writing tips to the experts.
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What’s Going On?
This is to be your one stop thread to what’s currently going on in the forum. Links to writing challenges, contests, and featured stories, both past and present, will all be located here. Other fun activities may find their way into being linked here as well, so make sure you...

I am revamping the rules as originally written by Princess Ai. I am adding to and subtracting from them now and will continue to do so as I see a need for it. Be sure to check back to the thread title often to see if you have read the most current rules.
There is a pinned topic in this forum....

Firstly, thank you Xero for helping me come up with the youtube name.
This is the topic where I'm going to post videos. The other topic is where you can discuss things.
This is the first video, Introductionary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZSf1OX9W8

Okay, sometimes it's hard to rhyme certain words. So I think this would be a good thread to have. If you have trouble rhyming something... check this thread! I'll update it as often as I can with random words that rhyme with other words. If you have a rhyme I don't have, and haven't posted, feel...

Drifting, drowning, you seem to fade
Nothing to grab except the sharp blade
Tearing at your fragile heart
Its come too soon, and it all fell apart
Dreading, defecating fear onto your soul
You try to flee from the grip, but it takes control
Nowhere to hide, nothing to ease the pain
You fall...

"Cuddle"
Cuddle me, sweetheart
My heart splits in two, here's your part
I am here to slay with chivalry
You'll be impressed with my delivery
You are my love, my heartbeat
Which you've got going fast, like Starsky
If you cuddle me, just know
You can be the pimp while I'm your . . . !

It's so hard to say "I Love You", and not draw back in tears
It's so hard to know that your not there to help me face my fears
It's so hard to answer the calls from my phone, not knowing it's not your voice
It's so hard to see you laughing when I'm crying deep inside
It's so hard to fall in...

I dream of you in the dark
Blessing me with the softest kisses
Whispering to me my worth
Holding my hand as you caress my face.
I dream of actually getting to touch you,
To know you through more than my phone screen.
Just a brief hug,
It doesn't even have to be romantic.

I don't know why I bother.
The venom dripping from your lips,
Burning my throat,
And I can feel the blood
Bubbling
And I can hear the acid
Sizzling.
You get so angry!
Then you tell me it wasn't a fight.
It was just a discussion.

Hey there. I'm new to this forum, and decided to, occasionally drop my own original poetry here. I'll probably contribute fourish times per week, since I still have a bunch of other things to do. Anyways, that's enough exposition, onto the poetry.
Home:
Mama please call Papa's phone,
the...

There is frailty in your words,
I was once foolish enough to believe them.
I'm older now, and more the wiser.
While I still love you, I trust you less.
There really is no need to lie to me.
Promises are the ways of cowards.
In your hollow words it is us you condemn.
For without trust there...

Slowly sinking
Silently
Into this stinking cesspool
of the repertoire of the unwanted:
Bastards, broken dreams, midnight fantasies.
No more, I say
Yet
It continues
Unperturbed by my desperate reach
For anything that might hold me steady.

Throttling me against the wall, I never would have guessed.
Pegged you for someone who would harm me? Never.
Disillusioned by you I certainly was.
How could I have known the you who nurtured me,
Brought me into this world, loved, cared, and protected!
No, I never would have known.
And now...

A certain sort of romance
Has taken deep ensnaring roots,
To the basis of my binding
And has obfuscated certain truths
A curtain for the frame
Which highlights lover's game,
A back and forth a'plenty
In an unsure sort of phase

Love is a mystery
Chemical in its periphery
Carnal by its tenacity
Beautiful in its complexity
Simple or enigmatic
It causes happiness and panic
Sometimes chosen, or automatic
It envelops the human heart

This is a story I wrote, because I really felt like writing something sweet last night. I classify it as a story, but it's written like a poem, so... I am a bit lost at the moment. Well, here it is under Poetry, I guess.
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A Winter Romance
I met you on December 1st
you signed my coffee...

cope with me
and this thoughtless poetry
you do it too
yours is just done secretly
medicated me
tremors violently
eager to earn your affections again
this is how we've always been
insisting my downward spiral is funny

There is so much to be said
But lost in a perpetual space
Rivers spew mendacies fed
Ingested like a poison glace
Watching Gaia's weeping
Amaroidal from heaven's bay
Her cannonade imploding home
Slathering with salty duress
Nothing in her repine noted
Former decussate in reaping

It has been a long while, close to a year. Going to try to get back into writing, back into viewing peoples poems. The reason as to why matters not but going to post a unedited poem and I would love to hear from anyone and everyone who has something to say about it, even if it is a just good. Point...

Unable to approach you
I am the fool in queendom's court,
Dressed with my wits at best-
With so much humor to sort
I hide behind my mask
Rosy and well refined,
A porcelain of poetry
Conceptually imbibed-

Haunted by her figure
The fawning of fair delusion,
My eyes can not synchronize
With her beautiful absolution
She is the Phantom of the Opera
My spectral Annabel Lee,
The Yellow Rose of Texas
That I have seen in my dreams

In the spirit of all Hallow's Eve, I was inspired to compose such a poem. Anyways, the means of inspiration nor how it was conceived is not important. All that matters, is my hope you, the reader enjoys this piece.
When I was little, it was okay. It was normal
To believe in the things that went...

This is just something that I wrote a long time ago.
Feel free to post your thoughts on it.
To An Old friend
Do you remember?
We turned onlookers emerald ,
Painted the words ‘FRIENDS FOREVER’
On our hands like little children.
Singing as if we were tone deaf at the

No comments here...
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Ripples disturb the flawless layer of water-skin
Blood falling like rain
The rivers run red as the oceans turn crimson
The sickly sweet stench of iron hangs in the air like a haze
The doldrums beat the dead soundlessly
A wing of darkness floods the...

Here's a poem inspired by a Nordic legend...
Brothers of Moon & Sun
Entities of cosmic greatness lie motionless in the sky
Of great importance were they, and such they knew
Deserts were born, for the sun was too close to the land
A forest in eternal night, where the moon relaxed
None...